ALBANY UNIVERSITY - Albany Center Gallery

733 broadway tonight 5 pm till 8 then to the Pump House.
"Egregore" tar painted with hubcaps.
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Albany Center Gallery Show

Contemporary visual art.

Opening reception December 7th 2012 5 to 9pm.

Exhibition runs: December 7 – January 26th 2013

The piece of metal sculpture shown was just completed and not yet named.

New work

Solo Show up and open daily 10 to 2pm until September 17, 2012

Opening Reception August 5th in Ballston Spa

You are cordially invited to:

The National Bottle Museum Artist Space presents:

                 “Fli-N-Shu”

          2 and 3 dimensional solo works of miChelle M. Vara

          Opening Reception- August 5^th, 5 to 7pm

Vara used the opportunity at the National Bottle Museum’s Jan Rutland Artist Space, to display new abstract work. The dimensional pieces include glass, metal, stone and horses in Saratoga Springs race season fashion.

          Show until September 17^th 2012, Friday-Tuesday 10am -4pm

Located- The National Bottle Museum Ph:(518) 885-7589

76 Milton Ave. Ballston Spa NY- the Jan Rutland Memorial Artist Space

North Country Art Juried Show At Crandell Park on 12-6-11

We invite you and your family/ friends to interact with the artist at:
Crandall Public Library's Friends Gallery in Glens Falls, New York. This year's show runs from Tuesday, December 6, to Friday, December 30, 2011, with the opening reception Thursday, December 8 at 6 p.m. Look forward to seeing you there!

Sept. 11 Monument Sculpture to be ready in Time

Post Star 8/27/2011

Wilton Sept. 11 monument to be ready in time for anniversary

Read more: http://poststar.com/news/local/wilton-sept-monument-to-be-ready-in-time-for-anniversary/article_b3e45b74-d02b-11e0-82aa-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1WF7BhkTG

WILTON -- When officials with the Wilton Fire Department received a long-awaited piece of the former World Trade Center, they weren't exactly sure what to do with it.

So they took it to an artist.

Michelle Vara, a sculptor in the town for 25 years, went to work on the twisted section of a steel I-beam the department had requested roughly four years ago.

"They said, ‘Use your judgment. Make it a sentence. Make it a statement,'" Vara said.

The sculpture - and the metals she added to it, each with its own meaning - will be displayed at the firehouse on Ballard Road in time for the coming 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

It's smaller and less controversial than the towering metal sculpture Saratoga Springs officials recently backed away from displaying in front of City Hall.

Vara, who operates 6 Ballard Road Art Studio Gallery, said her piece has a different feel. She said it's one of "positive retrospect," and that she was drawn to the unity she saw after the Sept. 11 attacks.

"Some really awesome things came out of an awful event," she said. "The camaraderie of human existence is mind-blowing - how people took care of their neighbors."

While most of the metal in the sculpture was deliberately rusted by Vara, one piece was not: a piece she bent into a circle. It stands out with a silver shine in the sculpture.

"The circle represents unity, how everyone came together and how people worked together - people from all walks of the Earth," she said.

One of the legs is wavy and inconsistent with the others, which she said represents the questions that remain unanswered about the disaster.

Firefighter Ray Bailey, who requested the piece of metal years ago when he was the department's president, got a glimpse of it for the first time Friday.

"I think it's wonderful," he said. "I think it's very expressive, and I think she did a good job conveying the energy and the emotion."

He said it was a meaningful coincidence that, after waiting years to find out if the department would receive the metal - and then a few more to actually get it - it arrived just months before the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

When it's put on display, the department plans to incorporate a multimedia showing of a decade-old project called "Through the Eyes of a Child," Bailey said. It consists of letters written by young children of firefighters in the department reflecting on the attacks shortly after they happened.

Many of the children who wrote those letters, Bailey said, are now firefighters.

Posted in Local on Friday, August 26, 2011

North Bennington 14th anual sculpture show

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Exploring Gray

Funny- The color of weather influenced my direction as an artist at this time.


  My style is normally very colorful but in this time I have explored the grays brought on by February. The white in color has stimulated 8 new painting.  My first thought of exploring the interiors of expression using little or no color was that it would be confining and limited to me.  But quite the opposite happened I found it freeing and intoxicating.  I started and I didn’t want to stop.

So you painters a fun thing to try is pick a color and stay within its values.

Thanks!